REVIEW: Malice by Mia Monroe (Soul Chaser #1)

MALICE

Soul Chasers - Book One

by Mia Monroe

Release Date: February 11, 2025

Review

This story is a fun read with a quirky take on the supernatural world. Soul Chasers.

A few folks are given the job of bringing escaped souls back to the underworld. Aster’s barely wrapped his head around the fact that he’s now a Soul Chaser before his first assignment comes through. And it’s a doozy.

Hudson thinks his problems are finally over until he learns ghosts are real.

These two make a great couple and the one good thing about this Horror terrorizing him…it brings Aster and Hudson together. You always get a glimpse at characters we’ll get to meet in future stories.

Just be prepared to buy a dog by the end - you know - just in case it’s all true! (iykyk)

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Synopsis

His undead ex is hellbent on dragging him to a premature afterlife. It’s my job to save him without getting us both killed.

Aster

I’m dead.

Or at least I was.

Until I got the opportunity to return to the life I was abruptly torn away from. It’s a no-brainer as far as I’m concerned. I’m not done living yet.

The catch? Become a Soul Chaser. Hunt down the Horrors, deadly souls that escaped The Below and return them to the depths where they belong.

My first assignment comes all too quickly, and I’m thrown into a dangerous world where a man’s life is in my inexperienced hands. The Horror attached to Hudson Davis is particularly nasty with a vendetta that even death didn’t resolve.

Hudson is terrified, rightfully so, and if I’m honest so am I, but there’s too much on the line for me to back out now. Not just my continued journey in the Above, but the chance at something that eluded me my first go round at life—love.

To save Hudson, I have to face Malice head on and not get myself killed. Again. If I’m successful, maybe the tormented and guarded man I’m quickly falling for can see how real our connection is and I can make the most of my second chance at life.

Malice is book one in Soul Chasers, an MM paranormal romance with dark themes, mid-level relationship angst, and spice. In Malice, you can expect a traumatized writer afraid of trusting anyone new, a newbie Soul Chaser recently returned to life (with just a few strings attached), a cast of dead and undead characters, two opposites forced together against a malicious entity, the steamiest revenge, and a love that overcomes all odds.
**The majority of this book takes places in a contemporary setting.**

About Mia Monroe

Mia has long been an avid romance reader and writer. As someone who identifies as part of the LGBTQ community, Mia feels a special connection to these sometimes complicated stories. Once she read her first MM romance, she was hooked, and now wants to bring those stories to you. She’s a hopeless romantic so she guarantees a happy ever after in all her stories, but she does not guarantee they will be without complications.

Mia describes her writing style as angsty, emotional, and kinky and just lets her imagination take her where it wants to go. No filters, no restraint, no apologies. She hopes you enjoy the ride and come back for more.

People will tell you Mia is funny in the most sarcastic of ways, fluent in inappropriate memes, loosely moral’d, a lover of words, and fueled by coffee and tacos- but not at the same time. She has some standards.

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